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Regarding DMG, Starter Set and Essentials kit: Are they good for the starting DMs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8810725" data-attributes="member: 5142"><p>Your truisms aside, what you say here is not the point. Neither of us know whether they will succeed at their goal or what steps they will take in that regard. However, we do know their goal. We know that WotC believed that their goal to improve the DMG for newcomer DMs was important enough to tell the public that Chris Perkins was writing the One D&D DMG for this purpose. We can judge whether or not they succeed at their goal once it's printed, but you are already writing them off and making your judgment about it. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I mean that you are not taking WotC by their word of their stated goals but are instead applying a cynical reading that claims that they are only printing the DMG for the sake of tradition. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm sorry, but your difficulty in answering my simple question has made me skeptical of any special insight you may purport to have in regards to helping teach new DMs. This is the part where, if I was teaching my students, I would pull out my red-ink pen and write "address/answer the question" in the margins and deduct points. </p><p></p><p>Now, I only have your words in this forum in the past and present to rely on. You may believe that you have a better insight into the best way to teach people to be DMs, but I have not seen you demonstrate on this thread or elsewhere much desire to aid newcomer DMs to that end. Regardless of whether the DMG is the best way to learn how to be a DM or not, I have seen you arguing against the very idea of trying to improve the DMG so that it is more new player friendly and beneficial for new DMs. But I am open to giving you a shot here. What can WotC reasonably do to help improve the experience for newcomer DMs?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 8810725, member: 5142"] Your truisms aside, what you say here is not the point. Neither of us know whether they will succeed at their goal or what steps they will take in that regard. However, we do know their goal. We know that WotC believed that their goal to improve the DMG for newcomer DMs was important enough to tell the public that Chris Perkins was writing the One D&D DMG for this purpose. We can judge whether or not they succeed at their goal once it's printed, but you are already writing them off and making your judgment about it. I mean that you are not taking WotC by their word of their stated goals but are instead applying a cynical reading that claims that they are only printing the DMG for the sake of tradition. I'm sorry, but your difficulty in answering my simple question has made me skeptical of any special insight you may purport to have in regards to helping teach new DMs. This is the part where, if I was teaching my students, I would pull out my red-ink pen and write "address/answer the question" in the margins and deduct points. Now, I only have your words in this forum in the past and present to rely on. You may believe that you have a better insight into the best way to teach people to be DMs, but I have not seen you demonstrate on this thread or elsewhere much desire to aid newcomer DMs to that end. Regardless of whether the DMG is the best way to learn how to be a DM or not, I have seen you arguing against the very idea of trying to improve the DMG so that it is more new player friendly and beneficial for new DMs. But I am open to giving you a shot here. What can WotC reasonably do to help improve the experience for newcomer DMs? [/QUOTE]
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